Ammar Hwanah

Ammar Hwanah was a Syrian refugee who immigrated to the United States with his family during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Ammar Hwanah and his family were Sunni Muslim Arabs from the city of Damascus, Syria, and they were forced to flee due to the Syrian Civil War. Hwanah and his family settled in the "Little Iraq" neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio in the United States, and on 21 July 2016 he was interviewed by Vice News. He told Vice News that his family had been advised to stay indoors during the Republican National Convention, as the Republican nominee Donald Trump was known for his hate speech against Syrian immigrants (and Muslims as a whole). Hwanah told his family about this warning at dinner, and he told Vice News that Islam should not be attached to terrorism, and that Islam was a peaceful religion.